CALL FOR PAPERS: UrbaNe Workshop

The urbanization of society continues to increase: in 2009, the fraction of
world population living in urban areas was above 50% (more than 75% in
developed countries). It is forecasted that another 10% of the world
population will move to metropolitan regions within the next 15 years,
leading us into the so-called “urban millennium”.

The scale and the pace that characterize the phenomenon of urbanization
raise evident questions on its sustainability. For metropolitan areas to be
able to accommodate the current population growth rate and avoid the risk
of creating “urban wastelands”, the overall management of city resources
has to be reconsidered for greater efficiency (and possibly fairness).
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are expected to play a key
role in such a process, their capillary integration in urban environments
giving birth to “smart/digital cities”.

This workshop aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from
both industry and academia to promote the discussion on networking
solutions for upcoming smart/digital cities. It aims at fostering the
debate among participants on (i) the identification of the urban features
that are the most critical to networking, (ii) the definition and the
classification of networking challenges deriving from such features, and
(iii) the proposal of original network solutions that can cope with these
challenges.

Topics

We invite submissions on all aspects of networking research that have a
strong focus on urban environments. Topics include, but are not limited to:

Submission guidelines

Submitted papers must be at most six (6) pages long, including all
figures, tables, references, and appendices. They must be formatted
according to the standard alternate ACM double column format and must use a
font size of 10 pt or larger. Longer submissions will not be reviewed. You
are strongly encouraged to use the modified 10 pt ACM sig-alternate-10pt
latex template. Submitted papers must not have been previously published
nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Accepted papers will be published in CoNEXT 2012 proceedings, and available
on the ACM Digital Library.